The Sounds and Sights of Performance in Early Music

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The Sounds and Sights of Performance in Early Music is written by Brian E. Power and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0754654834 (ISBN 10) and 9780754654834 (ISBN 13).

The experience of music performance is always far more than the sum of its sounds, and evidence for playing and singing techniques is not only inscribed in music notation but can also be found in many other types of documents and materials. This volume of essays presents a cross-section of new research on performance issues in medieval and renaissance music. The subject is approached from a broad perspective, drawing on complementary disciplines such as dance history, art history, music iconography and performance traditions from beyond western Europe. In doing so, the volume continues some of the many lines of enquiry pursued by its dedicatee, Timothy J. McGee, over a lifetime of scholarship devoted to practical questions of playing and singing early music.